1748.7 Hadrian à MYNSICHT [Henricus Madathanus]. D.O.M.A. Thesaurus, et armamentarium medico-chymicum. Hoc est Selectissimorum, contra quosvis morbos, pharmacorum conficiendorum secretissima ratio, Propria laborum experientia, multiplici & selectissima praxi confirmata, & nunc una cum remediorum Virtute, Usu, & Dosi, doctrinae, & sapientiae filiis fideliter revelata & communicata. Cui in fine adjunctum est Testamentum Hadrianeum de aureo philosophorum lapide. 8° Francofurti: impensis & typis Balthas. Christoph. Wustii 1675 Ferguson Young Wisconsin [Illustrations:- 1. Frontispiece engraving. 151x80mm. Portrait of Hardrian à Mynsicht. With laudatory verse below and with some alchemical apparatus and coat of arms in the borders. 2. Engraved title page. 151x80mm. Title surrounded by four rectangular plaques, Hermes and Hippocrates above and Diligentia and Experientia below. The title is also surrounded by four circular emblems. The one above is a version of emblem 45 from the 'Atalanta fugiens' series, while the one below is derived from emblem 21 of the 'Atalanta fugiens'. The images to the right and left are constructed from the symbols for alchemical sustances especially the planetary metals. These form the central images of items 3 and 4. 3. p1 of appendix. Woodcut. 66x66mm. A conjoined symbol of the Moon, Mercury, the Sun, Venus and Mars. To the left is Saturn and tot he right is Jupiter. Text around this is "Opus Muliercularum", "Planetarum coniunctio est metallorum generatio", and "Flere nere sedere haec tria sunt in muliere". 4. p7 of appendix. Woodcut. 67x67mm. Combined symbols of Mercury, the Sun, sulphur etc. Text around this is "Ex unius radicis duobus salibus, totidemque spiritibus, unus fit (Mercury) et unum (Sulphur)", "ex quatuor fiunt duo; ex duobus rursus fit unum", and "quod dicitur mundi Centrum".]